Note: This is just one of
1,325
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Thomas Ewing (1789-1871) —
of Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born near West Liberty, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
28, 1789.
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1831-37, 1850-51; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1841; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1849-50.
Died in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, October
26, 1871 (age 81 years, 302
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; in 1864, he led Union troops who attacked
and burned Atlanta, Georgia; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
|  | Political families: Seymour
family of New York and Connecticut; Ewing
family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cross-reference: Joseph
D. Webster |
|  | Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are
named for him. |
|  | The community
of Sherman,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Mount
Sherman, in Lake
and Park
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
|  | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
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|  | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
|  | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate
Presidents [anthology] |
|  | Image source: Great Men and Famous
Women (1894) |
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Thomas Ewing (1829-1896) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.; Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, August
7, 1829.
Democrat. Private secretary to Pres. Zachary
Taylor; lawyer; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1858; chief
justice of Kansas state supreme court, 1861-62; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Fairfield County,
1873; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-81 (12th District 1877-79, 10th
District 1879-81); candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1879.
Struck by a Third Avenue cable
car, and died soon after, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
21, 1896 (age 66 years, 167
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Thomas Ewing Jr. —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Candidate for mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1897, 1899.
Burial location unknown.
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